Euripides Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Noble fathers have noble children.

  Euripides

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

• What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

  Euripides

  Sad, Children, Pain

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker”

• Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

  Euripides

  Children, Military, May

• Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

  Euripides

  Fathers Day, Children, Disappointment

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

• The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

  Euripides

  Children, Hate, Wife

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

• All men know their children mean more than life.

  Euripides

  Children, Mean, Men

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

• Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

  Euripides

  Children, Successful, Men

  Orestes, l.542-3 (translated by M L West, 1987).

• Women's love is for their men, not for their children.

  Euripides

  Children, Love Is, Men

  Electra, l.265.

• Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

  Euripides

  Children, Eye, Light

  Euripides, “Children In The House”

• Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.

  Euripides

  Daughter, Children, Pain

  Euripides (2007). “The Plays of Euripides”, p.305, Wildside Press LLC

• A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

  Euripides

  Children, Parent, Doe

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

• Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.

  Euripides

  Children, Tantrums, Emotion

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae”

• All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

  Euripides

  Children, Mean, Men

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

• A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

  Euripides

  Children, Wife, Firsts

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

• Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Children, Spring

• The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

  Euripides

  Children, Father, Sin

  "Phrixus". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 416 BCE.

• If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

  Euripides

  Children, Women, World

  Euripides,, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro (2011). “The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.170, Oxford University Press

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